Joseph Sittler Quotes

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A believer is an evangelist primarily by who he is and how he lives-not by what he says. What he says is important; but unless his speaking tallies with what he is and does, he had better keep quiet.

Joseph Sittler

God is not identified with the world, for he made it; but God is not separate from His world, either. For He made it.

Joseph Sittler

I have never been able to entertain a God-idea which was not integrally related to the fact of chipmunks, squirrels, hippopotamuses, galaxies, and light years.

Joseph Sittler

On the first page of the Bible there is an instance of how literalism is but an invitation to transcend the image to which literalism points. That first page is not geology, biology or paleontology; it is high religion. For there we are told who we are in terms of our constititutive text. And if we could understand that, we would worrying about whether the antelopes or the cantaloupes came in a certain order.

Joseph Sittler

Joseph Sittler

Joseph Sittler

Born: 1904

Died: 1987 (aged 83)

Bio: Joseph Sittler was an American Lutheran minister and theologian who taught at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago and the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.

Known for:

Evocations of grace
Gravity & grace (1986)
The structure of Christian ethics (1958)
The Care of the Earth (1962)
Essays on nature and grace (1972)

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